The RMS Partnership offers on-site and online CEU technical
courses through the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). The instructors are technical
professionals with many years of teaching experience and authorship.

This course is designed to promote more effective management of
private engineering contracts and to increase the awareness of issues of
contract requirements for non-technical managers within technical
organizations. Due to the nature of the subject matter, related legal issues
will also be discussed. This is an introductory course so there are no
expectations regarding prior knowledge. At the conclusion of the course, the
student should have a working familiarity with the private contracting process,
techniques for contract negotiations, and contract administration.

This course will examine the concepts, techniques and tools for
managing risk and making decision as key components of the systems engineering
process. Differences between mission critical and non-mission critical
programmatic risk will be emphasized. Other topics include the limits of
expected value-based risk analysis, decision making strategies such a max/min,
min/max and regrets. Formal methods in risk analysis, elementary decision
analysis and decision trees, multi-objective decision making, Pareto
techniques, optimality, and trade-off analysis will be covered. Risk and
decision techniques will be contrasted with the interfacing processes of
program management and software engineering, from both the government (DOD) and
industrial perspectives. Case studies will be used throughout the course to
demonstrate actual implementation of concept and techniques.

This fast-paced course integrates principles, policies and
practices for implementing Performance Based Logistics (PBL) through enhanced
Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability (RMS). It highlights key PBL
concepts and the motivation for government and industry to improve sustainment
strategies for defense weapon systems. The course summarizes Department of
Defense directives and guidance concerning PBL implementation and describes
examples from new systems and legacy sub-systems. It incorporates interactive
team exercises to reinforce key activities like selecting a Product Support
Integrator (PSI) and developing Performance-Based Agreements (PBA). The course
also includes demonstration of additional PBL learning resources.

This course educates users with the CyberSecurity knowledge and
skill set to survive malicious attacks that continue to increase in COMPLEXITY,
FREQUENCY and SEVERITY. Students understand what CyberSecurity is all about: to
manage assets, and deploy security measures to pre-empt, prevent, and
proactively control risks by identifying, monitoring, prioritizing,
controlling, and mitigating them. Controlling these threats requires multiple
security disciplines working together in context. While no single solution will
solve the problem of such threats, next-generation security tools provides the
unique monitoring, management, configuration, control, and the integration
needed to find and stop these threats — both known and unknown. This course
will show what these tools are all about.